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The security levels are based on presence of external patrol, towers, security barriers, or detection devices. Federal prisons are run by the “The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) provides services and programs to address inmate’s needs. The services are based on the characteristics and needs of the inmate population” (The Bureau of Prisons). The strategy is to enter inmates into educational classes, special technical training courses, and other activities that will help them develop back into a law abiding citizen. The second prison we talk about is state prisons.
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With the fast pace of growing institutions and focuses on maintaining prison bed space, funding the facilities and community programs is inadequate and for the program to be effective, it requires full cooperation of all state and local agencies, and communities. The traditional
“Jails hold a variety of offenders (those who have been arrested, have been detained pending trial, have been sentenced to short terms of confinement for minor crimes, are awaiting transfer to another facility, and are being held administratively for a criminal justice agency). They may hold offenders arrested for public drunkenness or for multiple murders.” (Corrections: An Introduction, Third Edition, 2011) Jails have been around since 1166. The first jail was established in England. A gaol, was the term used by the English for what we call a jail today. These jails in 1166 were horrible places to be detained.
Prison is used to custody people who violate against the law inorder to deprivale their liberty as a kind of punishment. Separate the law violated citizens from the society to maintain social order, deter others potential offenders from criminal behaviour, and also ensecure the public safety. Nevertheless most of the prisoners will reintegerate to society, we should give them an opportunity to reform, however how to prevent them from recidivate is a pressing issue among the world. In US, it contain the world highest incarceration rate, 7,308,200 up to 2008 were sent to prisons and jails. The report of recidivism rate are vay, in the 2009 Florida prison recidivism study which study the prisoners who were released from 2001 to 2008 showed the
It’s a useful approach because it helps our comprehension of how the many-sided conditions of corrections can and will affect others. The many components of the corrections system include many subunits which are both federal and state corrections systems. The institutional corrections include prisons and jails; the community corrections oversee the people who are awaiting trial or were sentenced by the court but they’re living in the community. There are private organizations that supply many services to the people that are under the authority of corrections and there are considerable characteristics that remain surrounded by subunits of the same type. The issues that corrections faces today are dealing with contended goals; attaining acceptable finance; making the government of corre4ctional services competent; accommodating correctional activity over different agencies, and dealing with correctional contingency.
Jails and Prisons The basic differences between jails and prisons are jails are used for sentences less than one year and prisons are used for sentences longer than one year. Jails are also used for detaining witnesses for a criminal court case, and usually in need of protection or to protect them from harm before testifying in a case. Prisons are more of a punishment type of facility than a jail, because more freedoms and privileges are taken away than in a jail, such as reading materials, phone calls and visitations are stricter. The concept of prison as a total institution is to reform or rehabilitate a person from their criminal behaviors so that upon release they do not re-offend. Some may argue the definition of rehabilitation as a whole, as being in prison long term changes people, or better said, they adapt to the prison lifestyle.
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They have the power in criminal justice matters to appoint judges, police chiefs, and heads of department of corrections (Criminal Justice, 2011). The three parts to the American criminal justice system are police or other law enforcement agency, courts, and corrections. The first contact that a suspect or offender has with the criminal justice system is usually with a law enforcement agency who have been called to investigate a crime and make an arrest. This is typically the first contact a suspect or offender has with the criminal justice system. Police are primarily concerned with keeping